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Jackie Robinson
becomes the first African American major league baseball player -
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US 1950s
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Linda Brown
Parents sued Topeka BOE which denied their child the right to go to a Topeka white School -
Crisis in Little Rock
The 9 students from Little Rock ere the first African Americans to go to an all white school. -
Plessy vs. Ferguseon
They would seperate schools but they woud never be equal -
Rosa Parks- Bus Boycott
Parks did not want to give up her seat to a white person, she ended up getting arrested. -
Sit-Ins in Birmingham
African Americans would sit in resturants to protest segregation -
March For Freedom
they would demand passage of the Civil Rights bill, integration of schools, and job discrimination -
16th street Baptist Church Bombing
killed 4 little girls attending sunday school, a bomb struck the church -
Civil Rights Act
Johnson passed the strongest civil rights law in US history -
Voting Rights Act
Allowed African Americans to vote without losing their job or having to take a literacy test -
Martin Luther King Assassination
MLK was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennesse
